Bealls buys office space [South Florida]
It was not exactly a building with a broad audience: a Class A structure with all the tony accoutrements but tucked away behind an old East Bradenton neighborhood and surrounded by a steam-gouting juice manufacturing plant.
But to the great relief of Manatee County economic developers and the small downtown restaurateurs that relied on the hulking headquarters’ workers for business, Tropicana’s four-year-old corporate office building will languish no longer.
Homegrown Bealls Inc. has bought the 149,000-square-foot structure, which was built less than two years before Tropicana bigwigs abandoned Southwest Florida for Chicago.